Scouting for Girls are the worst shit ever

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LOL my comment got 11 thumbs downs, and I even got a response:


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Yeahh yur right english are farr better than americans!!!! Lol they up emselfs *Tehe*

LOLOLOooL kiddie street teamers.

Pashmina, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link

"they up themselfs"

Pashmina, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link

The Michaela Strachan song is on there BTW, as a secret track.

I just checked the press release to confirm that the singer is also the keyboard player so I could figure out how many people have to be killed

DJ Mencap, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

and what a surprise treat it'll be for everyone!

CharlieNo4, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link

should i disown my aformentioned lifelong friend over this? i don't think i can

blueski, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link

"The name is both a cheeky pun and a beautifully rounded image; infused with the nostalgia of innocent childhood and boyish adventure, yet suggestive of maturation towards experience, adulthood and disillusionment."

Sorry PR folks, the name can only be described as utter wank. Why? Because in the UK there's no such thing as Girl Scouts... they're Girl GUIDES. What you've done is try and shoehorn an existing piece of wry humour (e.g. Powel's book was called "Scouting For Boys"/scoutmasters are notorious child abusers) into something that totally misses the point. It attempts to say "we want to be funny and camp (pun intended) - we're a bunch of cheeky lads - definitely not pedos."

Shame, at least if they were "that pedo band" there'd be something to distinguish them from the other faces in the sea of Anglo-dross that they're flailing about in.

(FWIW I've not even bothered to click the link or listen to their music, so please tell me if my snap-judgement of the band is woefully wrong.)

Rombald, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link

The Michaela Strachan song is on there BTW, as a secret track.

So James Bond ISN'T 6:59 ? :-(((

StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link

expect ilxors of 2027 to revive acclaim this as Prius Pop or something. the piano is alright y know. if it was marti pellow it would be really good.

acrobat, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link

(FWIW I've not even bothered to click the link or listen to their music, so please tell me if my snap-judgement of the band is woefully wrong.)

no, that's pretty much otm (the anglo-dross bit anyway... couldn't really comment on the paedo angle tbh)

tissp, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

expect ilxors of 2027 to revive acclaim this as Prius Pop or something.

Uh I'm not reading a lot of acclaim in that Mondeo Pop thread if that's what yr getting at... I mean I really don't endorse the idea of a 'hivemind' on here but if someone tried to make an album that was 100% no returns guaranteed to encounter blanket ILM hate, this would be the one

DJ Mencap, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Thread could do with max r's view.

Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Elliot Minor are actually the worst shit ever, SfG are just the second worst shit ever

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Dom, you should move to the U.S.

jaymc, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTlT7wBBw0

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I was shopping for lingerie for muh wuhmmun in debenhams last night. She got some nice stuff, and it was 1/2 price in the sale! SCORE. Pity we had to listen to this on the in-store TV thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzREgP3RiU

it is seriously the worst record I have ever heard. Leaden playing that sounds like they got shit musicians and used protools to pull their performances into time, shit singing, shit lyrics. Shit, shit shit. Are all their lyrics dislikeable butthurt whining about not getting the girl, that makes you think the singer will be getting a restraining order for stalking in a few more weeks? GET ONE REALDOLL, LOSER. This is some awful rubbish. Fuck these people, they deserve pain.

Pashmina, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Also, NO TUNE. I'd defy anyone so sing or whistle it.

Pashmina, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link

It is whineable, possibly

Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh there are "Girl Scouts" btw.

Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link


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better than the kooks and razorlight ,,, wat a band and savage tuneeEE!!

Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link

savage tunee?

Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link

tuna marketed as salmon maybe.

Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Did someone think there wasn't?

xpost now that's damning with faint praise

Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Savage tunee - was this a mishearing of Jimmy Tarbuck? "Oho, lovely tuney, I play it on my iPoddy when I'm on the green with Brucie, Lynchie, Dan Hipgravey and TV's Tim Vincenty, oho, Maggie etcy."

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Amazingly, every single is shitter than the one that came before.

nate woolls, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:01 (fifteen years ago) link

I like how this thread title is axiomatic.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Good tunes, played with a smile. What's not to like?

Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Is that a press release quote or have I got to start a BAN thread?

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link

You've been listening to too much Radcliffe and Maconie (xpost).

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link

You goota start a BAN thread.

I like the cheeky irrepressability of theswe scanmps.

Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link

good lord on the razz at 10.30 am

Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I've sounded more cheeky and irrepresible than these cunts on a wet Monday morning in February with a 3-day hangover.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Raw Challops

yungblut, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link

is yungblut NRQ?

Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Every single song is exactly the same yet still as someone has already said, shitter than the first and I cannot stand the pianists face. Plus the glamour model that appeared in that first vid must have fallen on hard times (joke somewhere) to be convinced that being in their vid would lead to more fame.

VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I hate everything I hear from this act.

mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link

And just when you think..

Every single song is exactly the same yet still as someone has already said, shitter than the previous

.. has to stop somewhere...

Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link

I Wish I Was James Bond

Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link

the high bits sung in the chorus just... fucking... drive... me... mad.

mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Date-Rape Indie at it's finest.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link

i don't even think there's much dating here

restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link

sounds feasible.. whats date rape indie?

mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

This is a bit like hating on Coldplay or Phil Collins by now isn't it?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Kaiser Chiefs, SfG, anyone who stands up to play piano while wearing a pale Fred Perry.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Date-Rape Indie at it's finest.

Suggest their record company use this quote to promote their next release

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

No, far more stalker-pop.

I diarrhea'ed all over the Coldplay thread about them. I had no idea they were quite so bad. Honestly, I know that ILM will get it collective knickers in a twist over anything, but...

They're like a blander, more insipid, more mediocre version of Maroon 5 - and I didn't think that was possible!

post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link

xposts
Coldplay are better. Collins is a LOT better.

Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

KC and SfG are way worse than Coldplay or PCollins.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

That's Mick Talbot had it then (xxxxxp).

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

But nowhere near as bad as Elbow (xxp).

synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

...and I'm not even going to get started on how the phrase "date rape indie" is possibly more offensive than the aesthetic content of their music. >:-(

post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link

since when is it indie? They are a pop band loud and proud. Pop can be just as shit as shit indie!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

and they are the shittest of the shit!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

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The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link

I remember the year they played Glastonbury around the time their first album was out, my uncle was sat in his house watching the coverage on TV. "These don't seem too bad," he said to himself as they launched into the first song, much to my disgust. He took his eyes off the TV for about 10 or 12 minutes while he had a conversation with someone, during which they'd played something like three or four songs, and when he finally started paying attention to it again, this look of confusion came across his face. "Is this still the same song?". I was laughing my tits off!

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

can't sign into Youtube to post death threats on these guys vids :(

chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link

yay back in :)

chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link

four years pass...

I've just seen an advert on TV for a Scouting For Girls greatest hits... fucking hell.

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link

Like, are there really that many people who are going to be like "yeah, 'She's So Lovely' was the shit - thank you for reminding me of the existence of this band, I really need them in my life..."?

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link

sadly, yes

starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link

Just in time for Christmas too!

Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link

Looks like they've packaged their new album with the greatest hits, too. Christ.

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link

they were on the telly once in their heyday and for some reason the main guy was tuning his guitar and he actually didn't know how to do it.

so basically scouting for girls are punk rock.

-_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link

to me they are a lot like a lot of other terrible shit that many people who deride them are well into so yes

pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 October 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link

Show your working.

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link


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